Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

I found the magazine article that I recalled, in an issue from 1976. I'll post a page of it that I scanned, in the Wind Generator forum further down the page. It isn't a very legible picture, looks like the original was a poorly exposed snapshot, and the magazine was printed on newsprint paper ...

I found the magazine article that I recalled, in an issue from 1976. I'll post a page of it that I scanned, in the Wind Generator forum further down the page. It isn't a very legible picture, looks like the original was a poorly exposed snapshot, and the magazine was printed on newsprint paper ...

Here is a postcard from my hometown of a water pumping windmill on a redwood tree “stump”
Windmill_Redwood_Tree.jpg
Note how high up they had to climb to get above the “stump swell” or above a hollow or split section to cut the tree.
See the springboards they used as scaffolding? Makes a windmill ...

Andrew

The obscure & unusual always interests me. I know nothing of the one in Montana but remembered this reference to a windmill mounted on a tree in Africa in the 1899 Aermotor catalog. There is reference to the location and travails of placement in the description.


treed windmill.jpg


In ...

Hi there!

Wondering if anyone might be able to help me, I am a graduate student looking at the structural use of trees. Whilst researching, I found the following extract from an article by the Montana Historical Society on Jacobs Brother’s wind turbines.

“Fred Bruns recalled installing a Jacobs ...